Cash dairy prices were mixed Friday and buyers are back after what seems like a one week vacation at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey was up $0.0150 at $0.54. Six sales were recorded, ranging from $0.5225 to $0.54. Forty-pound cheese blocks were down $0.0050 at $1.64. Eight sales were recorded Friday, totalling only nine sales […]
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